Machine for repeating jacquard-cards.



PATENTBD JULY 2, 1907.

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MAGHINE FOR. BEPEATING JAGQUARD CARDS.

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MACHINE FOR REPEATING JAGQUARD-CARDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2, 1907.

Application filed November 28, 1904. Serial No. 234,459.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VERNON E. RoYLn, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of NewJersey, have invented a new and useful Machine for RepeatingJacquard-Cards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for repeating jacquard cards, withthe object in view of increasing the scope and efficiency of machines ofthis character and more particularly to provide for putting theselecting needles simultaneously under greater or lesser tension; toprovide for causing one line or set of selecting needles to advancesimultaneously with the retrograde movement of another line or set; toprovide for putting out of action each alternate bank of key wires; toprovide for gaining ready access to the needles for threading them andto provide two sets of tension blocks for relieving different sets ofneedles.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view in verticallongitudinal section of so much of the machine as will serve toillustrate the invention, Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same, Fig. 3is a partial side elevation of the same, Fig. 4 is a partial horizontalsection of the same in the plane of the line A-A of Fig. 1, Fig. 5 is apartial horizontal section of the same on an enlarged scale in the planeof the line B-B of Fig. 1, .Fig. 6 is a partial face view of the platefor mounting the pulleys over which the cords connecting the key wirespass, Fig. 7 is a face view of the retaining plate for holding thepulley supporting spindles in position, Fig. 8 is a partial face view onan enlarged scale of the frame for retaining the tension blocks showingthe structure of the blocks and their relation to the selecting needles,Fig. 9 is a horizontal section through the same showing the two sets oftension blocks and their reverse structure for engaging the needles,Fig. 10 is a view in detail of the removable spacing collar for throwingthe pulleys out of action, and Fig. 11 is a view in detail on anenlarged scale of a pulley showing I the two needles in proximitythereto and the mannner of connecting them by a cord passing over thepulley.

This invention contemplates the introduction into a machine forrepeating jacquard cards, of means for mechanically reproducing apattern and to this end the cords 1 are assumed to lead to a patterncarrier and manipulator such, for example, as that shown, described andclaimed in last Letters Patent No. 740,694, granted on the 6th day ofOctober, 1903, and not shown herein; while the selecting key wires 2,2*, etc., to

which the said cords 1 are attached, as will be hereinafter moreparticularly described, are also attached to selecting needles 3 by thevibrating levers 4 of well known construction so that the key wires 2and hence the keys may be operated by either the cords 1 or theselecting needles 3, 3*, etc., as may be desired, thus materiallybroadening the scope of the machine.

The chain of cards to be punched to correspond to the pattern isrepresented by 5 and is given a step by step movement beneath the bankof punches 6 in any well known or approved manner.

The keys for locking the punches are denoted by 7 and are connected tothe key wires 2 as usual. The key wires 2 are connected with theoperating cords 1 leading to the mechanical pattern manipulator notshown, one directly, and its neighbor indirectly, as follows z-Take, forexample, the two lower wires of the bank represented in Fig. 1, viz; thewires indicated by 2, 2*; a cord 8 is connected with the end of the wire2*, for example, by a knot 9 which will prevent it from drawing througha perforation in the end of the wire and leads thence over a pulley 10,one of a horizontal series of pulleys, back to the end of the wire 2where it is threaded back and forth, as clearly shown in Fig. 11,through eyes in the end of the wire 2 which serve to clamp itsufficiently to secure it to the end of the wire 2 to prevent it fromslipping and thence lead outwardly through a guide and stop plate 11 tothe shank of a hook 12 where it is made fast. The opposite end of thehook part of the hook 12 is attached to one of the cords 1.

The structure is such that when the cord attached to the hook 12 ispulled outwardly it will draw the wire 2 outwardly and relieve the keyat the end of the wire from its locking position over a punch and thisaction will be communicated by the cord 8 around the pulley 10 to thewire 2* and will cause the wire 2* to move inwardly to place its key inlocking position over the punch as clearly indicated in Fig. 1. In likemanner each alternate wire 2, 2*, etc., is connected by a cordcorresponding to the cord 8 with its neighboring wire so that when drawnoutwardly its neighboring wire will be forced inwardly to put the keyinto locking position. .The return movement of the wire 2 into positionto lock the punch through the cord 8 and the simultaneous returnmovement of the neighboring wire 2* is effected by that one of thevibrating levers 4 which has its lower end connected'to the wire 2* andits upper end connected to the selecting needle 3*, the latter beingactuated by a spring 13 as will hereinafter more particularly appear.

Each of the wires 2, 2*, etc., is provided with a sharp bend 14producing, in effect, a downwardly projecting nose which, by itsengagement with a bar 15, one of a vertical series of bars separatingthe needles, forms a stop for the wire in a direction to place the keyinto position to lock the punch and the wire when actuated by the spring13 will be thrown inwardly or intoa locking position until the stop 14does engage the bar 15.

The guide 11, through which the cords 8 pass to their connection withthe cords l, is suported by four sliding bars, two at the top and two atthe bottom, and the upper two being shown in Fig. 2 and denoted by 16,17, and one of the lower ones being shown in Fig. 1 and denoted by 18,it being understood that there is a bar corresponding to the bar 18immediately below the bar 17. These bars which support the plate 11slide the socket pieces 19, 20, 21 and a fourth, corresponding to 21 inits horizontal plane and to 20 in its vertical plane, the said socketpieces forming part of a frame supported and having a sliding movementon ways 22, 23, fixed to and projecting outwardly in a horizontaldirection from the main frame of the machine.

The bars 16, 17, etc., have the plate 11 securely fixed to their outerends and are screw threaded and provided with thumb nuts 24 engagedtherewith and pressing against the ends of the sockets 19,20, etc., tomove the plate 11 outwardly to increase the tension upon the cords 8 orby loosening the nuts the plate 11 may be moved inwardly to slacken thetension on the cords 8, and furthermore, when it is desired to renew thecords 8 or to change their fastening to either of the needles with whichthey connect, as in threading up the machine, the plate 11 may be movedoutwardly, the bars 16, etc., sliding in their sockets so as to gainready access to the ends of the needles for convenience in manipulatingthe cords 8, it being understood that when the plate is so movedoutwardly the cords 8 are free to slide through the plate .11 orentirely disconnected from it.

The frame mounted on the ways 22, 23, and which has formed thereon thesocket pieces 19, 20, etc., for supporting the bars which carry themovable plate 11, is mounted by means of sleeves 25, 26, 011 the waysand has a limited movement thereon between the frame 27 of the machine(see Fig. 5) and collars 28, 29, fixed on the ways 22, 23, respectively,the movement of the said sleeves 25 and 26 being 8111110181111 tosimultaneously put tension onto all the cords 8 to make them operativeor to slacken them all so as to make them inoperative by simply movingthe support for the pulleys around which the cords pass bodily inwardlyand outwardly. The holding of the sleeves 25 and 26 in either of thesetwo positions to render the cords 8 operative or inoperative is effectedby means of removable collars 30, 31, one of these being shown in detailin Fig. 10, and being left open at their'lower ends so as to straddlethe way and provided with a pin 32 set in the top of the collar andprojecting through the crown of the collar to enter a socket 33 formedin the way. The ways are each provided with one of these sockets 33 inproximity to the main frame 27 and in proximity to the fixed collars 28and 29 so that the slip spacing collar 30 may be removed from itsposition at one end of the sleeve and when the sleeves and the framecarried thereby are moved outwardly or inwardly as the case may be theslip collars are inserted into the spaces to hold the sleeves 25, 26,and hence the frame carried thereby in their adjusted positions.

The pulleys 10 hereinabove referred to are arranged in horizontalseries, several of these horizontal series being arranged in a verticalplane in the face of a grid 34 forming a part of the frame carried bythe sleeves 25, 26. The wires 2, 2*, etc., are arranged in verticalseries in the spaces 5 between the bars of the grid. A horizontal seriesof pulleys 10 are mounted on a swinging pintle passing continuouslyalong the face of the grid and denoted, in the present instance, by 36.

The pintles 36 conveniently consist of a wire let into half-sockets 37formed in the faces of the bars of the grid and the several pintles areheld in position by a. grid face plate 38, the bars of which correspondto the bars in the grid 34- and the face of which is provided withhalf-sockets 39 corresponding to the half-sockets 37 so that when theface plate 38 is fastened to the face of the grid 34 as, for example, byscrews 40, the spindles 36 will be securely locked in position and thepulleys 10 will each be housed between two consecutive bars of the gridand corresponding bars of the face or retaiie ing plate.

Particular attention is invited to Figs. 5, 6 and 7, for a clearillustration of the parts innnediately hereinabove described.

The bank of selecting needles 3, 3*, etc., for each. alternate needle ina vertical series, in the present instance, the needle denoted by 3""',is provided with retracting springs 13. These springs are shown in thepresent instance as coiled springs interposed between a collar 41 on theneedle, and a tension plate 42 through which the needles pass. Thetension plate 42 is a vertical plate provided with perforations whichpermit the needles to slide freely in it and is made nlovablelongitudinally of the machine to simultaneously increase or decrease thetension upon the springs 13. This adjustment of the plate 42 is effectedas follows:'.lhe plate 42 is fastened to rods 43, 44, supported at theirrear ends in brackets 45 (see Fig. 4) made fast to the opposite sides ofthe main frame, one only being shown in Fig. 4, it being assumed thatthere is a. similar bracket 45 on the opposite side of the machine forthe rod 43 and at their forward ends the said rods 43, and 44, aresupported in the stationary needle plate 4 (5. As a matter ofconstruction, I find it convenient to make the outer portions of therods 43 and 44 of reduced size and separate from the inner portions toform shoulders at 47, 4.8, and to provide the inner face of the movabletension plate 4-2 with angle iron pieces 4.), 50, one flange of theangle iron resting fiat against the inner end of the face of the plate42 and the other extending rearwardly from the plate to form extendedbearings at the. opposite edges of the plate, the outer portions of therods 43, 44, being screw threaded and tapped into the larger innerportions and the plate 42 and flange lying against it being providedwith screw threaded perfoj rations to receive the screw threads on therods 43, 44, to hold the plate against the shoulders 47, 48. The outerends of the rods 43, 44, are provided with heads 51, 52, on the top ofwhich are formed sleeves 53, 54, through which a rock shaft 55 extends,the said rock shaft being provided with depending arms 56, 57, fixedthereon by means of socket pieces 58, 59, and provided with. upwardlyextending operating handles 60, 61.

The arms 56, 57, are connected by links 62, 63, re-

spectively with the stationary frame of the machine so that when thehandles 60, 61, are pulled outwardly their arms 56, 57 willfulcrum onthe links 62, 63, and the rods 43, 44, together with the plate 42, willbe drawn outwardly thereby reducing the tension on the springs 13. Onthe other hand the inner throw of the handles shaft 55 and hence thearms connected thereto, the

parts may be locked in such adjustment by turning the tail nut 64 on thethreaded end of the shaft 65 and hence drawing the parts into snugfrictional contact.

I further provide for placing either the needles 3 or the springactuated needles 3*, the one or the other, under increased tensionsufficient to prevent them from operating under the spring tension orsufiicient to hold the former in the positions which they shall beadjusted or the latter against spring tension or permitting them to workunder spring tension by employing two sets of tension blocks, asfollows: One of these sets of tension blocks is donated by 66 (seeFig. 1) and the other by 67. These are shown in detail on a larger scalein Figs. 8 and 9. The particular means for pressing them toward theneedles to exert tension upon the needles forms no part of this presentinvention and is shown described and claimed in Letters Patent No.556775. dated March 24, 1896. My present invention, however,contemplates the use of two sets of tension blocks instead of one'setand the recessing of the individual blocks of the sets in such a mannerthat when one set, for instance, the set 66 is forced into engagementwith the needles, each of the needles 3 will have tension appliedthereto while the needles 3* will be free to'slide because of therecesses 68 in the series of blocks 66 which lie opposite the needles 3*but, when the tension is applied to the series of blocks 67 (see Fig.9), the bars 3* will be placed under frictional tension while the bars3, the series or bank of blocks 66 being released, will be free to slidebecause of the recesses 69 in the. sides of the blocks constituting theseries 67 coming opposite the bars 3.

The arrangement of tension blocks in two series, one series applying toone set of needles and the other to another set of needles enables me toplace each alternate needle under tension and leave the others free toreciprocate or to place the others under tension and leave the formerfree to reciprocate as the working of the particular pattern may demand:

In actual practice, in the event the needles 3, 3*, etc., are to be usedto operate the punch keys as in the ordinary repeater, the springs 13may have their tension materially reduced by the outward movement of theplate 42 and the corresponding tension to make them operate with thesame freedom as the needles 3 may be applied by manipulating the seriesof tension blocks 66 and 67 while the pulley carrying plate or grid 34is bodily moved outward to slacken the cords 8 so as to cause the wires2, 2*, to move under the action of the vibrating levers 4 whollyindependent of the mechanical pattern manipulating mechanism. On theother hand, if it is desired to use the machine with the patternmanipulating mechanism, the selecting needles 3, 3*, etc., may bepermitted free movement and the actuating springs of the needles 3* maybe utilized to return the wires 2 which may be actuated by the cords 1.

What I claim is:

1. In a machine for punching jacquard cards, key wires connected incouples by flexible connections, pulleys engaged with the flexibleconnections and means for moving the pulleys bodily along the machine toplace the connect ing cords into and out of operative adjustment.

2. In a machine for punching jacquard cards, key wires connected incouples by flexible connections, pulleys engaging the flexibleconnections and an adjustable plate for increasing or diminishing thetension upon theseveral flexible connections at one and the same time.

3. In a machine for punching jacquard cards, key wires connected incouples by flexible connections, pulleys engaging the flexibleconnections, pintles each common to a series of pulleys, a grid betweenthe bars on which the pulleys are located and means for locking thepintles to the face of the grid.

4. In a machine for punching jacquard cards, key wires connected incouples by flexible connections, pulleys en- .gaging the flexibleconnections, the said pulleys being arranged in series, pintles eachcommon to a series of pulleys, a grid, a face or retaining plate andmeans for securing the face or retaining plate to the grid to house thepulleys between the bars of the grid and retain the pintles in position.

5. In a machine for punching jacquard cards, the combination with thekey wires, of cords connecting the wires in couples, pulleys arranged toengage the cords, a plate through which the cords pass, means for movingthe plate toward and away from the ends of the wires and means formoving the said plate and pulleys bodily toward and away from the endsof the wires.

6. In a machine for punching jacquard cards, the com- .bination with keywires, and selecting needles connected with the key wires, of springsfor operating the selecting needles and means for increasing ordiminishing the tension of the several springs at one and the same time,

7. In a machine for punching jacquard cards, the combination with keywires and selecting needles connected therewith, of springs foroperating the selecting needles, a plate against which the springs bear,means for adjusting the plate bodily and hence the tension of thesprings and means for locking the plate in its adjusted position.

8. In a machine for punching jacquard cards, the com- I bination withkey -wires and selecting needles connected therewith, of springs foractuating the selecting needles, a plate forming a bearing for thesprings, sliding rods carrying the plate, a rock shaft supported on theends of the sliding rods, the said rock shaft being provided with arms,links connecting the said arms with the frame of the ma chine and meansfor locking the shaft in its rocked adjustment.

9. In a machine for punching jacquard cards, the combination with keywires, selecting needles connected there with and springs for actuatingcertain of the selecting needles, of a plurality of series of tensionblocks, the said series of tension blocks being arranged the one seriesto exert tension upon certain of the needles and relieve other of theneedles and another series being arranged to exert tension upon thosewhich were relieved by the former set and relieve those upon whichtension was placed by the former set.

10. In a machine for punching jacquard cards, the combination with keywires and selecting needles connected with the key wires, of a pluralityof series of tension blocks, one series being arranged to act uponcertain of the needles and another series being arranged to act uponothers of the needles.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signedmy name in presence of two witnesses, this 11th day of November 1904.

VERNON E. BOYLE.

Witnesses FREDK. HAYNES, C. S. SUNneRnN.

